Throughout December I addressed multiple hosting and website related issues. This includes migrating many websites from a dedicated server on OVH to Vultr, moving this website to Wetopi, and cancelling my VaultPress subscription. I had used VaultPress for several years to handle external website backups, however their service has went …
Yesterday I made a small but significant change to this blog and returned my blog index to the front of this domain. Over the last few years we have seen many popular blogs move their blog index off their home page and use a landing page instead. This allows them …
Far too often we see roundup articles with the best WordPress themes, that some of the other top platforms get neglected. Have you ever heard of Ghost? If not, you may want to consider it, because it provides a beautiful opensource interface that many would argue is easier to manage …
Those of you with an eye for detail may have noticed that I changed the design of this blog recently and returned to using the Genesis framework. This is a framework I used for many years on this blog. Rise Forums regulars will know that I have not been too …
Images – these days, you don’t want to publish a post without one. If you want people to share your content, then you need images (even if they don’t feature grumpy cats or grumpy babies). Research from Ipsos shows that images represent 43% of the content people share. And a …
There was a dry spell in good blogging WordPress themes for a few years, however there has been something of a resurgence recently. Developers are taking more risks and releasing dedicated blogging designs rather than designing all in one solutions that do everything. In this article, I would like to …
There are a lot of blogging related job boards out there, however the ProBlogger Job Board has always been my favourite. Its format has hardly changed since it was launched in 2006. I usually check the board once or twice a week to see if any new interesting blogging jobs …
Due to my cravings for cool gadgets, I check the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter frequently. Some amazing projects have been funded there recently such as the OUYA video games console, Pebble watch and Zach Braff’s sequel to Garden State. One project that caught my eye recently was Ghost, a new open …
The 2000s are remembered as the time when the vast majority of WordPress themes were free and the 2010s can be remembered as the “Decade of the Premium WordPress Theme”. If the Kata WordPress theme succeeds, perhaps the 2020s will become the “Decade of the Freemium WordPress Theme” :) Developed …
Multi-Vendor plugins such as WC Vendors, Dokan, and WC Marketplace, can be used to transform your WordPress website into an eCommerce marketplace where thousands of vendors sell products. A few weeks ago I showed you the best solutions for creating a WordPress marketplace in my article “How to Create a …